[Al (astral highway)]

I believe that everyone is doing the best they can, all the time.

That may seem ridiculous or a deeply challenging concept to some of us, but even if someone is asking such an apparently naive question that it looks like a joke, in my world, that's still the best they can do.

So I approach everyone as if everything they are doing is just that, the best they can be doing. It really simplifies my life!

For all that, I do feel sorry for people who for some reason moved the voltage selector from 250 to 220V, for no apparent reason, and in the process blow up a transformer. Or who keep running a high-end 1970s transistor radiogram even when one channel is blown, with really obvious distortion, until the thing is practically smoking and beyond redemption -- by which I mean a cascade of faults, suddenly, one on top of another. I've seen two or three beautiful examples of 70s Danish kit go into a skip for this reason.